The Rise Of Israel’s Ultra Orthodox

Gershom Gorenberg outlines how the ultra orthodox have been enabled by the Jewish state:

Remaining a full-time Torah student allowed a man to stay out of uniform. The deferment helped lock young men into the kollel lifestyle. So did the education gap: Though ultra-Orthodox men spent years engaged in study, their schooling did nothing to prepare them for jobs in a modern economy. From their teens on, their curriculum was devoid of mathematics, sciences, foreign languages and other general studies.